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Sweet Emotion: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out 2’ Eyes Potential Second-Best Animated Pic Opening Of All-Time At $140M-$150M

posted 13 days ago by Satan2016 (23931)
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Excites Thursday With Best YTD Previews Of $13M As Pixar Movie Eyes $100M Opening
https://deadline.com/2024/06/box-office-inside-out-2-1235973432/

Friday AM: We got a hit on our hands as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 clocked $13M from Thursday previews that began at 3 p.m., the best so far in 2024. beating Dune: Part Two‘s $12M. The current Rotten Tomatoes scores are a 93% Certified Fresh rating from critics and 95% from moviegoers, setting up the movie for a potential $100M+ opening weekend. The running overseas cume is $22.3M.

Look for Inside Out 2 to blow past its $135M global opening projection.

You can easily say that when it comes to Pixar brands, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Also, unlike 2022’s Lightyear, the sequel brought back most of the voice cast except for Bill Hader. Out of the gate, Inside Out 2 is 4½ stars with Thursday preview audiences on Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak, with 57% general audience, 23% parents and 21% kids under 12. Parents gave it five stars and kids 4½, the latter being girl-heavy at 52%, and parents being mom-heavy at 73%. Overall definite recommend is 72%.

[–] Satan2016 (23931) 13 days ago

FRIDAY PM: There’s not stopping the influx of cash at theaters coast to coast for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 which is ending Friday at $60M, the second best opening day for an animated movie after the studio’s 2018 title Incredibles 2 at $71.2M. It’s also leaps and bounds ahead of the first day of last summer’s animated hit, Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse which did $51.8M. All of this is leading to the third best opening ever for an animated movie after Incredibles 2 ($182.6M) and last year’s Super Mario Bros Movie ($146.3M 3-day).

Not a surprise, Inside Out 2 gets a solid A CinemaScore, which is the same grade as the first 2015 movie. The overperformance, as we told you earlier today, comes from the massive walk-up business from Latino and Hispanic moviegoers who are repping 42% of the sequel’s audience ahead of 31% Caucasian, 10% Black and 10% Asian crowds.

[–] Satan2016 (23931) 12 days ago

SATURDAY AM: “It’s pacing like Barbie” beamed one rival studio marketing source about Disney/Pixar’s amazing opening weekend with Inside Out 2 which at $140M-$150M could wind up being the second highest opening for animated movie of all-time behind Pixar’s own Incredibles 2 ($182.6M) and ahead of Super Mario Bros Movie ($146.3M). Here’s how Inside Out 2 is akin to Barbie: If you back out the $13M Thursday previews out of the sequel’s $62M first day (the second highest ever for an animated movie), Friday did $49M which more than Barbie‘s first Friday of $48.2M sans Thursday previews. Wow.

Inside Out 2 will give Pixar the top three animated opening days of all-time behind Incredibles 2 ($71.2M) and ahead of Finding Dory ($54.7M).

Rivals see this sequel well above $150M, however, I hear presales are lower than yesterday, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t walk-up business, which is the sheer driver of business. Updated, Latino and Hispanic audiences rep 40% of moviegoers, followed by 31% Caucasian, 13% Black, 10% Asian, and 6% Native American/other. Another indicator of walk-up business is that Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak shows 62% of the audience purchasing their tickets on same day they watched it.